Of Bookish Things<p>We Now Know What May Have Caused the <a href="https://c.im/tags/SalemWitchTrials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SalemWitchTrials</span></a></p><p>- A new study purports to have discovered the source of the “<a href="https://c.im/tags/WitchCraze" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WitchCraze</span></a>” that led to witch hunts across Europe and America in the 15th through 17th centuries.</p><p>- New ideas about <a href="https://c.im/tags/Witches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Witches</span></a>—casting them as a “conspiratorial activity against godly society” — came from a <a href="https://c.im/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Book</span></a> called <a href="https://c.im/tags/MalleusMaleficarum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MalleusMaleficarum</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/JohannesGutenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohannesGutenberg</span></a> <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/1428Valais_HexenHunts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1428Valais_HexenHunts</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/MassProducedBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassProducedBook</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BestSeller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BestSeller</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PopularCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PopularCulture</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Religion</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Folklore</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IdeationalDiffusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IdeationalDiffusion</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/MassMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassMedia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Printing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Printing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MassMediaLiteracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassMediaLiteracy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PrintingPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrintingPress</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BeliefSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BeliefSystems</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MassProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassProduction</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SocietalParanoia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocietalParanoia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a62546301/witch-trials-cause" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">popularmechanics.com/culture/a</span><span class="invisible">62546301/witch-trials-cause</span></a></p>